All Issues

October 2021

Contents

• Building an Interdisciplinary Community through Public Sociology
• Immigration Policy, Legal Status & Enforcement through Three Decades of Research among Central American Immigrants in the United States
• Response to Menjívar
• Memories of Mel Kohn
• Being a Fence Watcher at Black Lives Matter Plaza
• The Capitol Riots and Police Suicides Remembered
• Reflections on Howard University’s Panels on Race Relations
• Interview With Evan Douglas: How Can We Reduce the Sociological Contributors to Police Violence?
• Watching Fences
• Journeys and Cycles: Student Experiences of Virtual Learning During the Pandemic
• Contributors

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May 2020-Public Sociology (Special Issue)

Contents

• The Challenge of Public Sociology – in the Pandemic of 2020
• The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Centrality of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Truth and Service: The Hundred-Year Legacy of Sociology at Howard University
• Participatory Action Research as Public Sociology: Bringing Lived Experience Back In
• W.E.B. Du Bois, the First Public Sociologist

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January 2020

Contents

• Racial Tug of War: The Enduring Conflict over Affirmative Action
• Morris Rosenberg and Sociology in High School
• A Cultural Look on the Adolescent Mind
• Oppressive Societies and Social Justice Warriors: Conversation with Joe R. Feagin

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May 2019

Contents

• The #MeToo Movement and Sexual Agency
• Ask the Sociologist: Feminist Sociological Theory and Conflict Theory
• Evicted at the National Building Museum
• Framing Slavery at Mount Vernon
• The Ultimate Project: Erik Olin Wright and Real Utopias
• Ask the Sociologist: Are Ethnic Groups Subcultures?

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January 2019

Contents

• Sugar Puffs or Frosties? Bandersnatch, Interactive Content, and Active Engagement
• The Legacy of Devah Pager
• Diversification: Conference on Gender Equality Reimagines the Purpose of Economics
• Data Watch: UM College Park Tops List of Schools in Area with R&D Funding
• Call for Papers: Punishing Trauma

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October 2018

Contents

• The Other Story about Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors
• Experiencing the Other at CARNE y ARENA
• The Challenge of Reentry in a Free Society: Prospects for a New Crime Commission
• Building an Age-Inclusive District
• Ask the Sociologist: Authority and Obedience

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May 2018

Contents 

• Policing Brown Bodies
• Skipping Class: First-Gen, Working-Class, and Low-Income Students in College
• Our Fight for Transparency
• Art Exhibition Expands the Construction of “American Workers” in the Popular Imagination
• Breakfast with a Side of  Public Sociology
• Reflections on March for Our Lives
• Ask a Sociologist

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February 2018

Contents

• The Mall is Dead, Long Live the Mall
• The Magic of Breakfast: Pancake Saturdays
• Re-Centering the Student Voice in the Debate of Free Speech in Higher Education
• Our Meeting Place
• Featured Resource: Few Years’ Resolution Video Archive

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October 2017

Contents

• Starting with Community: Sociological Practice in Building Scholar-Activist Coalitions
• Aspiring to Entrepreneurship in the District
• “28 Blocks” Mural and Public Art
• Berlin on My Mind: Traveling through Memory

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May 2017

Contents

• Bonds of Community, Points of Individualism:
  Conversation with Amitai Etzioni
• What We Can Learn from the Debate over Educational Technology in Schools
• Tuesday Night Lights
• Ballet and Bourdieu: Making Sense of The Nutcracker in Popular Culture
• Now That the Election is Over: The Future of Criminal Justice Reform
• What Public Housing Can Teach Us: Lessons Learned from Grassroots DC

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September 2016

Contents

• Meeting Children’s Needs in an Era of Accountability
• The Ten Frugalities of Affluent Climate Activists
• Sociology in the District – Interpreting the Name Redskins
• Walls and Emails and a Whole Lot of Outrage
• Ask a Sociologist
• Wearing Gay History: Using T-Shirts as Narratives

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May 2016

Contents

• Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination
• A Washington Life: The Sociology of Anna Julia Cooper
• Truth about the Past, Justice in the Present
• Immigrant Testimonies about Transitional Space: the Albanian Experience

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January 2016

Contents

• H Street and the Aesthetics of Cool
• A Variety of Globalizations
• Who is an Applied Sociologist?: Panel Discussion about Careers
• Fighting Violence with Gandhi and Sociology
• Stars Wars and the Problem of Public Attention

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September 2015

Contents

• Campus Sexual Assault and Male Peer Support
• At the Intersection of Mental Health Services and Guns
• Farewell to a Legacy: The Closing of a Sociology Program
• Where Status takes Place: Observations from Istanbul
• Sociology on my Mind: Traveling through Budapest

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May 2015

Contents

• Class Inequalities among Women
• The Slippery Search for Kinky Sex
• Inequality in the District
• The Founding of DCSS Part Two: Organizing
• Founding Members of DCSS 1934 (Table)

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February 2015

Contents

• Gender Differences in the Heterosexual College Scene of Hookups and Relationships
• The Founding of DCSS Part One: The Context
• Rethinking Police-Community Relations
• What’s Your Sociology?
• The Mis-measurement of Racial Identity

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November 2014

Contents

• Sociology’s Place in the Academic Labor Movement
• Measuring Identity among Hispanics in the United States
• Media and Social Movements: Scholar Traces Source of Letter M
• Markets in the Name of Socialism, Planning in the Name of Capitalism

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